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Concerts and performances dedicated to the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre 10th Anniversary: in Russia and abroad


Concerts and performances dedicated to the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre 10th Anniversary: in Russia and abroad

Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre celebrates its first anniversary in 2012/2013 season. Grand opening of the Opera Centre took place on 1st of September 2002, and after only four months the first production received premiere on its stage – Mikhail Glinka’s opera Ruslan and Lyudmila.

For the past 10 years ten opera productions have been staged and numerous concerts have been held both on the Opera Centre stage and on most prestigious concert and theatre venues in different countries, the major festivals in Hungary, Germany, Holland, Italy, Spain, Mexico, Macedonia, France, Czech Republic, South Africa.

Following their studies at the Centre, many of its singers have become soloists of Bolshoi Theater, Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater, Novaya Opera, Helikon-Opera, Mikhailovsky Theatre, as well as successfully perform at Opera di Roma, the Opera National de Belgique in Brussels, the Opera Royal de Wallonie in Liege and the Stadtstheater in Bonn, as well as at the Salzburger Festspiele and Ravenna Festival.

Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre celebrates its 10th birthday with anniversary performances and concerts, special exhibitions, publications and other art projects.

 

October 2 – Moscow, Opera Centre
Concert season opening
‘Our first anniversary’ Music greetings by the graduates of the previous years

November 26-29 – Moscow, Opera Centre
‘Young Opera Singers Sessions’
Master-classes by Mirella Freni
Gala concert by the Opera Centre soloists and the soloists of Mirella Freni Belcanto Academy (Modena, Italy).

December 17 – Vienna, City Hall
Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre presentation and a concert by its soloists

January 28 – Moscow, Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Dedicated to Galina Vishnevskaya
Gala concert by the prize-winners of the Galina Vishnevskaya International Opera Singers Competition and Placido Domingo’s ‘Operalia’ competition.

February 13 – St. Petersburg, the Hermitage Theatre
Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin

March 10 – San Luis Potosi (Mexico)
Gala concert by the soloists of the Opera Centre and San Luis Potosi Theatre

April 30 – Baden-Baden
Tchaikovsky – Eugene Onegin

May 1 – Karlsruhe
Gala concert by the soloists of the Opera Centre

May 19-21 – London
Cadogan Hall
Gala concert by the soloists of the Opera Centre
Russian Cultural Center in London ‘The Pushkin House’
Opera Centre presentation

June 8 – Sevastopol, ‘War and Peace’ Festival of Arts
Verdi – Rigoletto

June 12 – Geneva
Concert by the Galina Vishnevskaya Opera Centre soloists and Mstislav Rostropovich Foundation scholarship holders

June 10-17 – Moscow, Saint-Petersburg
‘Young Opera Singers Sessions’
Master-classes and Gala Concerts by the soloists of the opera Centre and Domingo-Thornton Young Artists Program under the LA Opera

June 20 – Tchaikovsky Concert Hall
Tribute to Galina Vishnevskaya
Opera Highlights – Gala Concert. Conductor – Eugene Kohn (USA)